FUNDING
PREDICTABILITY AND
SUSTAINABILITY
JUNIOR PROFESSIONAL OFFICERS,
2017-2019
UN Human Rights opened 2019 with only
US$60 million of predictable income
in pledged contributions that were
annual instalments of multi-year funding
agreements. In 2019, UN Human Rights
had such agreements with 16 donors,
including 11 Member States (Australia,
Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Italy, the
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,
Sweden, Switzerland and the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland), the European Commission and
four other donors (the Ford Foundation,
the MacArthur Foundation, Microsoft and
the Open Society Foundations).
Some Member States provided UN
Human Rights with additional, indirect
financial support by contributing to
the United Nations Junior Professional
Officers (JPO) Programme, which is
administered by the Department of
Economic and Social Affairs, in New York.
As of 31 December, UN Human Rights
had 32 JPOs (23 women, nine men) who
SPONSOR
NATIONAL JPOs
(+ NON-NATIONALS)
2017
were supported by the Governments of
Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany,
Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea,
the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden
and Switzerland (see table below).
Switzerland and the Netherlands also
funded JPOs who were nationals of
developing countries. Non-nationals
amounted to six out of 32 in 2019.
NATIONAL JPOs
NATIONAL JPOs
(+ NON-NATIONALS)
2018
(+ NON-NATIONALS)
2019
1
1
IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS
A number of Member States, namely
Colombia, Qatar and Senegal, which host
UN Human Rights offices, provide in-kind
support by covering costs of items, such
as the rent of premises, utilities and vehicles. The corresponding contributions are
credited to their assessed contributions to
the United Nations regular budget.
MEMBER
STATE
NATURE
OF IN-KIND
CONTRIBUTION
ESTIMATED
FAIR VALUE
US$
Rental of
Premises
294,898.00
Provision of
armoured
vehicle and
running costs
57,694.21
Senegal
Rental of
Premises
90,563.00
Qatar
Rental of
Premises and
running costs
Colombia
Belgium
Denmark
10
8
4
Finland
1
1
1
Germany
2
Hungary
1
1
1
Italy
3
3
1
Japan
2
3
2
Republic of
Korea
2
2
2
Netherlands
2
3 (+2)
3(+5)
Norway
2
1
2
Saudi Arabia
1
1
Sweden
2
2
3
Switzerland
6 (+1)
3 (+1)
5(+1)
Spain
1
1
United States of
America
1
178,542.00
TOTAL
36
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